The only movie reviews you need

All you need to know in 3 short paragraphs because honestly, who wants to read more?

Monday, December 21, 2015

May the Force Awaken

It's finally here!The Star Wars saga continues in J.J. Abrams’s
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ the seventh episode of the beloved and
super popular fantasy-in-space opera George Lucas started seemingly so long ago.As members of its fandom, Star Wars defines who
we are and makes us proud to embrace the inner geek in all of us because it is
cool to be a Star Wars fan.With a box
office gross of $238 million in North America and well over $500 million
worldwide on its opening weekend, TFA proves once again that SW is a global
phenomenon with no equal.

While Abrams gave the Star Trek
franchise an extreme makeover with sometimes mixed results, he approached his
new project with the care and reverence of a devout fanboy who’s terrified of
straying too far from the original material.Playing it safe is the right thing to do because: (1) he would have been
crucified by angry SW lynch mobs, I mean fans, had he taken too many risks they
didn’t like, and (2) he can’t go wrong staying true to the “spirit” of the
original trilogy.If by so doing TFA looks
a bit familiar and feels like a rehash of Episode IV in its parallel plot lines
and characters, then so be it because that was the intention in the first place.

Fans love SW for its plentiful
action, colorful characters and simple black-and-white world-building with a
dash of dysfunctional Shakespearean family melodrama, all of which TFA delivers
in spades.While we may miss the old (or
young, rather) Luke, Leia, Han and Vader we’ve known, a new generation of
heroes and villain has capably picked up the standard in Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron
and Kylo Ren.With the background thus
set in this long-awaited new chapter, the future looks bright indeed for the
most popular “science fiction” franchise of all time.